Curator’s Talk: Flower Power

In honor of the 50th anniversary of San
Francisco’s Summer of Love, the Asian Art Museum showcases the expressive power
of flowers in the arts and cultures of Asia. Flower Power focuses on six celebrated flowers—lotus, plum blossom,
cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, tulip and rose—and the messages they convey.
What do these flowers symbolize? How have flowers come to carry these meanings?
Join Flower Power curator Dany Chan
for an in-depth look at these questions and the making of the exhibition.

Organizer & Sponsors

Flower Power is organized by the Asian Art Museum. Presentation is made possible with the generous support of Doris Shoong Lee and Theodore Bo Lee, The Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Fund for Excellence in Exhibitions and Presentations, Phoebe Cowles, Warren Felson and Lucy Sun, Cathy and Howard Moreland, and an anonymous donor. Media sponsors: Wall Street Journal, NBC Bay Area, KQED.